This week is the Microsoft WW Partner Conference, and we have had several meetings with the Unified Communications team from Microsoft. In addition, we had breakfast this morningwith Cliff Reeves.
At Parlano, we spend a lot of time talking about Persistent Group Messaging, or topic-based, persistent group dialogs via chat. Yesterday, in meeting with Eric Swift from Microsoft, we were discussing the very clear differences between Group IM, which is non-persistent, temporary IM sessions involving several people, and Persistent Group Messaging, which is channel-based, persistent Group Chat. Both involve groups, both can be teams. But the biggest difference is that one conversation is persistent and one is not.
What was interesating about our conversation with Cliff is that he views Office Communicator as the place to have non-persistent, temporary conversations, but that Outlook is the place where he "persists", or saves information. Outlook includes saved emails, possibly files... you can even save IM conversations from Office Communicator into Outlook. The natural question then is, if MindAlign is Persistent Group Messaging, should MindAlign be integrated into email and/or outlook rather than IM? Once the presence infrastructure is in place, technically we could do it either way. But maybe Cliff is right; maybe PGM is more similar to email than it is to IM.
We'll see...
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